keen comments on Truth: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

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Comment author: keen 08 May 2014 02:46:00PM *  1 point [-]

Human brains do experience in-group reinforcement, so we ought to aim that reinforcement at something like truth-seeking, which tends to encourage meta-level discussions like this one, thus helping to immunize us against death spirals. Note that this requires additional techniques of rationality to be effective. Consider that some truths--like knowing about biases--will hurt most people.